Well... Chrome put the scrollbar arrows back. I don't know what to say. :) Esteban A. Maringolo 2014-03-26 10:38 GMT-03:00 Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com>:
2014-03-26 10:27 GMT-03:00 phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be>:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com>
Like in Chrome... and almost everywhere else. The scrolling metaphor is so ingrained that in some cases even the bar isn't displayed until the scroll intent is initiated.
FWIW, Office 2013 has nice scrollbars with arrows. Along with supersmooth animations.
Microsoft is very conservative in that regard. They aim at the broader range of END USERS, from the noviceto the computer literate one.
I payed particular attention to this "scrollbar" UX in the past, and my personal research (watching people) shows that most of them use the mousewheel or simply drag the bar in mouse based UIs, and/or swipe up/down in touch based.
I love supersmooth animations, but they're part of a whole transitions engine.
Windows Explorer has others (which have cool arrows) and these (<-) (->) (^) things that we should put into nautilus in addition to the history dropdown.
What are the (<-) (->) (^) you mention? :)
Regards!